Oneill Excavation LLC

Oneill Excavation LLC, doing business as O'neill Excavating, is a small business contractor based in Troy and Libby, Montana that specializes in excavation, heavy equipment services, and vegetation management for federal land management agencies. The company holds a Department of Transportation (DOT) Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) designation and has been registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) since March 2017. O'neill Excavating has established itself as a primary service provider to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple regions, delivering critical support for forest health, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure maintenance activities on federal lands.

O'neill Excavating has received numerous prime federal contract awards totaling approximately $1.8 million in delivery orders, with the overwhelming majority of work performed for the U.S. Forest Service's Region 1 (Northern Region), which covers national forests in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The company's service portfolio includes mechanical thinning, excavator piling, slash piling, roadside mastication, fireline construction, and related vegetation management and fuels reduction activities across multiple national forests including the Kootenai National Forest, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, and areas surrounding Libby and Eureka, Montana. Recent delivery orders have addressed substantial acreage commitments, such as 296 acres of thinning and excavator piling with 0.9 miles of fireline construction valued at $218,090, and 284 acres of excavator piling as part of the Highway Dickey Fuels project valued at $156,360. Delivery orders have been issued without small business set-aside designations, indicating open competition, and have been funded through major legislative initiatives including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Individual delivery order values have ranged from approximately $500 to $218,090, with completion dates extending through 2026. The company has also received awards from the National Interagency Fire Center for heavy equipment and excavation support services, with delivery orders totaling approximately $72,065 for wildfire suppression and land management operations.

O'neill Excavating currently holds five prime Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) vehicles with combined ceiling values exceeding $82.5 million. The largest and most recent vehicle is a single-award $20 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Forest Service Region 1 (awarded September 30, 2025, expiring September 29, 2030) for Region 1 Road Maintenance and Forest Maintenance/Support Services, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside. The company also holds a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service's Northern Region (awarded May 15, 2023, expiring October 3, 2032) for Northern Rockies Stewardship activities across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, which is not subject to a set-aside designation and covers vegetation and fuels management, habitat restoration, and infrastructure maintenance. Additionally, O'neill Excavating maintains a $12.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for Region 1/Region 4 Mechanical Thinning (awarded September 28, 2022, expiring September 30, 2026) designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, from which the company has executed 16 delivery orders totaling approximately $1.2 million for mechanical thinning, excavator piling, and related services. The company holds two additional multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts valued at $250,000 each through the National Interagency Fire Center: one awarded May 14, 2024 (expiring May 14, 2029) for miscellaneous heavy equipment including feller bunchers, mulchers, graders, and skidders for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4, and another awarded June 1, 2023 (expiring June 1, 2028) for heavy equipment and excavation services for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9. All five IDVs utilize firm fixed-price contracting mechanisms, enabling the agencies to issue task orders on an as-needed basis to support forest stewardship, wildfire mitigation, and emergency response operations across multiple geographic regions and national forests.